The ancient Greeks enjoyed in their everyday life
a close association with the spiritual worlds. An indication of this contact
is reflected in the ways in which human passions and human frailties were
assigned by them to their gods. Modern man with his dependence on
intellectual or rational knowledge has lost this link, and in these lectures,
Steiner shows how the same living reality of the spiritual world can be
re-awakened through our modern viewpoint and the cultivation of Spiritual
Science. With such an approach, modern man like his predecessors can again
glimpse the same living Beings who lay behind the figures of Greek
mythology.